| DE | HB398 | Intro
25% | This Act renames the Human Trafficking Interagency Coordinating Council as the Delaware Anti-Trafficking Action Council (Council) for the purpose of providing a clearer description of the work that the Council performs. This Act also transfers the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
Reported Out of Committee (Appropriations) in House with 5 Favorable |
| DE | HB426 | Engross
50% | This Act allows counties to use Realty Transfer Tax funds for recreational amenities and land preservation programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-19
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB183 | Engross
50% | This Act creates a process for the Commissioner of Elections to determine if a candidate or an incumbent elected official for a State or county elected office are residents of the district or area they represent or seek to represent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB411 | Engross
50% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would prohibit the regular session of the General Assembly from extending beyond 5:00 p.m. on the last day of June, unless the session is recalled by the Governor or the presiding officers ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Executive) in Senate with 3 Favorable, 3 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB294 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that would update the minimum voting age in the Delaware Constitution from twenty-one years to eighteen years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Elections & Government Affairs) in Senate with 1 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB425 | Intro
25% | This bill makes needed changes to the Lyme Disease Oversight Board by adding 2 members including an infectious disease epidemiologist and a licensed veterinarian or entomology specialist.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-18
Reported Out of Committee (Administration) in House with 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | HB93 | Engross
50% | This bill creates the Grants-In-Aid Committee. The Committee is a joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives. The purpose of the Committee is to view applications for grants-in-aid and to develop and recommend to the Joint Finance Com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To Senate Elections & Government Affairs Committee |
| DE | HB277 | Engross
50% | This Act codifies the principle set forth in Doe v. Bicking, 2020 Del. Super. LEXIS 43, *32, 2020 WL 374677 (Del. Super. Jan. 22, 2020) that recognizes that in cases of childhood sexual abuse by an employee of a school, organization, or business that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB4 | Enroll
75% | Like Senate Bill No. 4, Senate Substitute No. 1 for Senate Bill No. 4 requires the Department of Education (Department) to maintain and publish a list of evidence-based, reading instruction curricula for grades kindergarten through 3. Each curriculum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-17
Passed By Senate. Votes: 18 YES 3 ABSENT |
| DE | SCR100 | Engross
50% | This resolution proclaims May 2022 "Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-11
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB330 | Engross
50% | This Act renames the Claymont Regional Transportation at First State Crossing in Claymont, Delaware as the "Harris B. McDowell, III Transportation Center" after Senator Harris B. McDowell, III, the longest serving member of the Delaware Gen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-10
Reported Out of Committee (Transportation) in Senate with 4 Favorable, 2 On Its Merits |
| DE | SB11 | Engross
50% | This Act is the first leg of a constitutional amendment that will modernize the bail provisions within the Delaware Constitution and clarify the power of the General Assembly to define either certain offenses for which, or circumstances under which, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-06
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | SCR99 | Engross
50% | This concurrent resolution designates the month of May 2022 as "Lyme Disease Awareness Month" in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-05
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SJR6 | Engross
50% | This Senate Joint Resolution designates August 31, 2022, as "International Overdose Awareness Day" in the State of Delaware and directs the State flag to be lowered to half-staff at State facilities and encourages local governments, busines...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-04
Reported Out of Committee (Health & Human Development) in House with 5 Favorable, 4 On Its Merits |
| DE | SCR91 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes Christian Holy Week and Passover in the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-05-04
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SB271 | Intro
25% | The Justice of the Peace Court actively discourages the acceptance of warrants from citizens, yet the statute as it currently stands may be interpreted to allow such warrants. This Act abolishes citizen warrants in the Justice of the Peace Court and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB359 | Engross
50% | This Act adds victims of human trafficking to the Address Confidentiality Act. Under this program, certain crime victims are provided a substitute address by the Department of Justice so as to protect the participants actual address from public discl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB360 | Pass | The Act, which shall be known as the 2022 Delaware Relief Rebate Program, creates a relief rebate which is a one-time direct payment of $300 per Delaware resident taxpayer. This relief is intended to help Delawareans grappling with significant inflat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB373 | Pass | Currently, there is ambiguity whether a person who is 14 or 15 years of age can be employed by restaurants, hotels, or dining facilities that serve alcoholic liquors. This bill removes that ambiguity and makes it clear that persons 14 and 15 years of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-14
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB365 | Enroll
75% | This bill establishes the pilotage rates for the Pilots Association for the Bay and River Delaware for 2023, 2024, and 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 20 YES 1 ABSENT |
| DE | HB379 | Intro
25% | This Act Amends Title 10 of the Delaware Code by allowing automatic Expungement for Juveniles who choose to participate in the Juvenile Offender Civil Citation Program after one year of successful completion of the program. This Program was offered a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | HB308 | Pass | A disability pension for Delaware State Police officer and County and Municipal police officers and firefighters is only for those first responders who suffer injuries on the job such as being shot or assaulted while effecting an arrest or getting bu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB232 | Intro
25% | This Act requires that each school district and charter school serving high school students administer in grade 10 and again in grade 12 an assessment of United States history, government, and civics that includes all of the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-04-04
Amendment SA 1 to SB 232 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
| DE | HB370 | Intro
25% | This Act seeks to establish the Office of State Inspector General in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-31
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB358 | Intro
25% | This Act decreases by 1% the rate of realty transfer tax to be received by the State, thereby returning to the rate that was applicable prior to August 1, 2017. This will be effective for documents recorded after July 1, 2022.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-31
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB347 | Intro
25% | This Act makes patronizing a prostitute a Class G felony with a mandatory minimum fine of $1,000 unless the actor has been convicted of the same offense in the last 5 years, in which case it is a Class F felony with a mandatory minimum fine of $2,000...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-24
To House Judiciary Committee |
| DE | SB254 | Intro
25% | This Act suspends the state taxes on motor fuel in this State for 30 days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-23
To Senate Executive Committee |
| DE | HB300 | Intro
25% | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware middle schools. The unit is phased in over 3 years, beginning in FY2023, to arrive at a final ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades 6-8 for a full-time school counselor, scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-19
To House Appropriations Committee |
| DE | HCR53 | Engross
50% | This Resolution expresses the General Assembly's strong support for Ukraine in its war against the invasion by the Russian Federation (Russia) and for the severe economic sanctions imposed on Russia by President Biden's administration. This R...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-08
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HB319 | Intro
25% | There are presently at least 30 states that have a statute defining and protecting parental rights, or case law that interprets parental interests as a fundamental right. Delaware has neither. This proposal is the first leg of a constitutional amendm...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-03-03
To House Administration Committee |
| DE | HB282 | Pass | This Act authorizes Legislative Council to determine the compensation to be paid to the Delaware Code Revisors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB295 | Pass | In January 2021, the Code Revisors provided the General Assembly with a list of potential technical corrections that they identified as they revised the Delaware Code to reflect legislation that was enacted by the 150th General Assembly in 2019 or as...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-16
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB227 | Intro
25% | This Act generally requires a student athlete to compete for athletic teams or in sports associated with their biological sex, as determined at or near birth and based on the students birth certificate or other government record if a birth certificat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-11
To Senate Health & Social Services Committee |
| DE | HB281 | Pass | This Act provides for a Deputy Controller General who is authorized to serve as the Acting Controller General if the Controller General dies, resigns, is removed, or is temporarily incapacitated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-02-07
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SCR68 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 16, 2022, as "Religious Freedom Day" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR69 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution urges the Secretary of the Navy to designate Philadelphia and both banks of the Delaware River as the site of the main celebration of the 250th birthdays of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps in October a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-27
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | SCR64 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes January 9, 2022, as "Law Enforcement Appreciation Day" in Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HCR45 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution provides for a Joint Session of the House of Representatives and the Senate to be convened for the purpose of hearing an address by the Honorable John C. Carney, Governor of the State of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2022-01-13
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | SB12 | Pass | The purpose of this act is to open up The Delaware Student Excellence Equals Degree Act (SEED Act) to adult Delaware residents, who are not recent high school graduates. Currently, about 56% of Delawareans age 25-64 lack a post-secondary degree. This...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-10-12
Signed by Governor |
| DE | SB65 | Pass | Senate Bill No. 65 establishes the Focus on Alternative Skills Training Program ("FAST"). FAST will provide tuition assistance, to Delaware residents who have obtained a high school diploma, Diploma of Alternate Achievement Standards, or a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB131 | Pass | This Act implements the procedure for the notice of a proposed amendment to the Delaware Constitution authorized by the amendment to § 1 of Article XVI of the Delaware Constitution proposed by House Bill No. 130 by doing the following:
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB170 | Pass | This Act allows counties to use Realty Transfer Tax funds to pay expenses related to assessments and reassessments of real property and associated improvements. Further, it permits New Castle County to expand potential referees of tax assessment appe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-30
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB137 | Pass | This Act amends the Charter of the Town of Laurel to include in the qualifications for Mayor and Town Councilman, that candidates must be non-delinquent tax payers of all capitation and property taxes of the Town of Laurel for at least 1 year next pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-09-17
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB100 | Pass | This Act establishes a mental health services unit for Delaware elementary schools. The unit is at a ratio of 250 full-time equivalent students grades K-5 for a full-time school counselor, school social worker, or licensed clinical social worker. Add...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-19
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HJR3 | Pass | This House Joint Resolution establishes the Legislative Building Committee for the purpose of studying and recommending a plan to address the technology, security, and space needs for Legislative Hall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-08-04
Signed by Governor |
| DE | HB130 | Enroll
75% | This Act is the first leg of an amendment to the Delaware Constitution to enable the General Assembly to designate who is responsible for providing notice of a proposed amendment to the Constitution and how the notice is disseminated. This change giv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-29
Passed By Senate. Votes: 21 YES |
| DE | HR16 | Intro
25% | This House Resolution requests each school district and charter school to release in a timely fashion a list containing the names and addresses of all graduating high school seniors to the Department of Education. The Department of Education is reque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-24
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB109 | Intro
25% | This Act is the first leg of a Constitutional Amendment reflecting the recommendations of the Advisory Panel to the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council (DEFAC) on Potential Fiscal Controls and Budget Smoothing Mechanisms established as p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-15
Tabled in Committee |
| DE | SCR54 | Engross
50% | This Concurrent Resolution recognizes the young men participating in the 2021 session of Delawares Boys State and commends its sponsor, the American Legion Department of Delaware.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-10
Passed In House by Voice Vote |
| DE | HB135 | Intro
25% | This Act expands the eligibility for Line-of-Duty disability benefits to all firefighters or emergency medical technicians (EMT) who are a member of a volunteer or municipal fire department in this State or a designated first responder, including fir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2021-06-08
Amendment HA 1 to HB 135 - Introduced and Placed With Bill |
